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Expanding Explain feature to do batch and inserting directly in Confluence templates

The customer would like a few additional features added to the Explain feature. First, they would like batch processing, where they can select several COBOL programs and allow them to process them to gather the explanation all at once and the poss...

Support for complex Git Repos for WCA4Z Understand

Today you need to manually add all folders from a Git Repo if you want to synchronize to a WCA4Z Understand/AD project. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.3?topic=commands-iv-use-cases-best-practices . We need a way to specify root folders, and ...
18 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4z Missing native support for GIT

BBVA complaint that in WCA4z is missing the native support for GIT.
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

WCA4z ADDI to be a real-time snapshot

BBVA wanted the code in ADDI to be a real-time snapshot, or almost real-time. If a developer made a change that modified a dependency, they wanted the rest of the developers to be able to see it quickly and not have to wait until the next day.
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

WCA4z ADDI limit loading components

BBVA detected that when loading 30,000 components, ADDI becomes extremely slow and sometimes stops responding. We know that you recommended not to place more than 30,000 components per project or repository; however, BBVA indicates that the relati...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

AD Build call dynamic resolution outside paragraph

As discussed with the AD development team, the dynamic resolution works only with MOVEs inside the same paragraph with the CALL, plus a case when you have a MOVE to the same paragraph just before the PERFORM <para-with-the-call>, with the co...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Intellij IDEA support as IDE

My client - Bank of China, is very interested in WCA4Z Cobol2Java. The challenge now is their standardized Java IDE is Intellij IDEA which is very popular among Java developers. Currently, WCA4Z only support VS Code as IDE. To maximize the target ...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Discovery Analyze Client should not access database directly

Today, the ADDI Analyze client needs direct access to the DB2 LUW or MS SQL Server database. In a production environments, customers keep "ALL" databases in a special zone within the network. Typically, application servers only have access to data...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review